I am little. 4 or 5. I am screaming. I don't want a haircut, I don't like short hair. You lean over and backhand me with all of your might. Your mother nods in approval in the next chair.
I am 6. I am struggling to read out loud (though I do it just fine to myself). You are...

Im 17 and have a mom who is epileptic and(in my opinion) bipolar. She is so nice to me at times and then other times shes yelling in my face. I have a boyfriend who she hates,, and i recently told her we broke up after a bad fight. I never ended up breaking up with him and...

I am a daughter of a mentally ill mom. She used to lock her self in her room and cry for hours. She used to yell at me when I would ask the stupidest things. She made my baby brother go to school when he smelled like skunk for weeks. She acts jealous of me and is never happy...

as everyone else.
My mom has been struggling with mental illness her whole life. She has OCD, is a former addict, and I think she's bipolar, and certainly depressed.
I began to hear her stories about how miserable she was starting back when I was 14. I was the one she came to...

please forgive me but this is the only place where I can vent and cry with other that know my pain . I think I'm loseing my mind I'm yelling at her and I know in my heart she ill but some times I swear she dose things just to **** me off no matter what I ask her to do she WILL...

My mother is both bi-polar and schizophrenic. Starting with the positive she is also my best friend, and only person I can truly talk to and be myself with. When she is on her medications and balanced she is literally the nicest person in the world.
When I was 5 my mother...

I can't believe my little dream of finding Mr. Right and having children never happened. Life went too fast. My mother was very cruel to me when I was growing up. I have so many psychological problems from it. She was highly critical and accused me of things that were...

I love my mother, but she is driving me up the wall. Part of the problem is her inability to connect emotionally to me. I am 37, and my boyfriend passed away suddenly last year. When I came home, I expected her to show sympathy, instead she said "Oh good, I have someone to take...

My mom used to throw the christmas trees. She would lock herself in bathrooms threatening to kill herself when I was little. She took us to the hills was gunna drive us kids off a cliff when I was little. She would go around the house singing shes gunna kill her kids and herself...

Basically I am now a struggling 19 year old. I ran away from "home" at 16 because my father would beat me up occasionally and was very verbally abusive. He would get me against the wall soo close I could feel his breath as he would scream and hit me and pin me so I couldn't move...

My mom has paranoid schizophrenia...no its not like how they portray schizophrenia on TV. She creates connections where there aren't any. She is the center of her delusion. When I was growing up no one explained to me what was wrong. I saw my mom lose her...

My mother was diagnosed Manic Depressive, Paranoid and she had attempted Suicide a few times in her life. After her age of 50, Jean developed agoraphobia and became delusional. This was a caustic combination for me throughout my life.
My earliest memories were that of shame and...

I really need some help, from someone in this situation. My mother has Post Tramtic Stress Disorder due to the trauma of a rare brain tumor, that not much is known about. She also is prescibed vicoden, which she is highly addicted to. A rehab doctor had told my friend whose mom...

About 20 years ago (before I was born), my mother had brain cancer. After the cancer was gone, she was left with a brain injury, resulting in epileptic seizures. Back when I was very young (preschool age), she was a really normal stay at home mom! We would have little dance...

My mother has been mentally ill for as long as I can remember. It had been controlled somewhat up until a couple years ago when she divorced my dad and she has been going off her meds.. She lost her job of 18 years and has been hospitalized twice in the last six months.. I begged...

my story well where do i start where do i end
- i dont even feel like i want to ruin peoples lives with her bad stories - im hoping you will understand - its so bad and so awful its like weird -
ive put up with it for years growing up as a child because she told me i was...

As far back as I can remember, my mom was depressed. We never had a conversation as daughter and mom. We never laughted together. We went shopping but never spoke or interacted with each other. She never taughte me anything. I came along 12 years after my brother and...

Oh... where to start. Well, my mom is an epileptic. When she was 15 she had a stroke and survived but the result of the stroke was a crippled hand and brain damage of half of her brain. I remember when I was little she wasn't so crazy, but I think my mom is the way she is because...

I, too, am a daughter of a mentally ill mother. My mother was diagnosed with bipolar disorder when she was 23 years old and when I was around 16, paranoia schizophrenia was added. I noticed the older I get the hard time I am having accepting her illness. I know that she...

I'm guessing not the best one though. As a kid I did get into things but nothing illegal. I didn't get suspended, I never stole or took drugs, I've never even tried pot. I was asked to clean the house before they came home and watch the little ones whenever requested and I did. I...

I'm 19 years old and currently live at home with my mom, stepdad, and 15 year old sister. My mom has debilitating post traumatic stress disorder from the death of her first husband (when she was hardly older than I am now) and the actions taken by the US military after the fact...

My mom has been home bound since i was 7, I'm 16 now. She has suffered with PTSD (post tramatic stress disorder) my whole life, due to her bad childhood. I've never been able to relate to anyone growing up because most kids have parents suffering from alcoholism or something...

My mom is a survivor of thyroid cancer. A couple of years ago she had a tumor removed and she has never been the same since. She is on heavy medication and is still very unstable. Last night she had a mental breakdown and tried to commit suicide in front of our entire family. I...

I live with my mom and I'm 41 years old....I can't tell you how much of a loser that makes me feel. But it's not just I'm 41 and unsuccessful, but I'm terrified of turning into my mom, who is 61 and equally unsuccessful..in life. Oh, she has a good job and a roof over her head...

My mother loves me more than anything. I am the center of her universe and she does not have a whole lot going on. She is bi-polar and has had occasional psychotic breakdowns every few years since I can remember. These would involve episodes of delusions, calls to the police...

had bipolar disorder and she ran away half way across the country to live with some guy she met on the internet. She tried to kill herself by drinking bleach while she was away and has fried most of her brain cells. It's very hard to live with her. I feel for everyone who has a...

physical abuse and neglect. I now have anxiety, PTSD, panic attacks (not so frequent re:medication), depression since the age of 6 was my first awareness of the depression. Serious trust issues. My emotions and psychological pain have dominated my life as long as I can remember...

Hospital for one of my mom's treatment team meeting. My mom is a lot better than she was 4 years old. I am ready for her to come home and so is she. She has 48 hour passes that allows her to come home. They are Monday to Wednesday and Friday to Sunday. On the weekday home visits...

I don't really know how to add to these stories.
My mum suffered from depression from my birth until I was about 25, I am now 31.
It ruined my childhood. There was constant pain from it. It rwecked me emotionally. She couldn't look after me and all my oler...

My mom was mentally unwell for as long as I can remember... Until today, I'm 22 years old, I still do not know what is the exact illness she is suffering from... Maybe because I never wanted to find out... I find her to be such an embarrassment... I don't invite friends home, don...

I'm only 12. Just turned twelve. My mom was raped and has some terrible experieces. She has ptsd bipolar and depression. She used to just leave me and my sister who is 4 years older then me home alone when i was aout ages 6-9 and my sistre was 10-13 about, she would leave and not...

It was when I was just seven years old and I had survived yet another unwarranted beating that week that I realized my mom, just wasn't like all the other moms I had met. The others were kind, smiled, had a nice word or two and paid attention to their children at least in some...

I was born after WWII in Berlin Germany. My mom had gone through horrible things in the war besides scars from her childhood. It made her pretty mentally ill. She had such a need to feel important and to have control. She pretended to be a nurse and dress up as...

When I was four, my mother tried to kill herself. I remember. It was probably the single most frightening experience of my childhood, and for many years afterwards, I was haunted my night terrors where my mom would be killed, or commit suicide. She spent time in a mental hospital...

my mom is a hoarder. she also has some other kind of mental illness but had never been diagnosed because she refuses to seek treatment. she has a master's degree in social work and used to be a therapist before she got fired. she claimed it was because of her age. i had to...